Marines get rank-dependant HUD icons above their sprites

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Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws
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Marines get rank-dependant HUD icons above their sprites

Post by Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws » 08 Jan 2017, 23:37

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): You know how in Revolutionary game modes, revs and rev heads have different colored icons? It'd be implemented here in a way where each specific rank gets an icon, and their squad changing the background color of that icon. Alpha Specialist would get a "S" with a red background, Charlie Medic would get a medical + sign with a yellow background, etc.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): At a glance, we'd easily be able to tell their rank and squad. Right now we have colored armor, so identifying squad identity isn't hard, but sometimes engies, specialists, and marines all blend in.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): It'd just be code similar to the Revolutionary game mode, right? Just different colored sprites, based on ID, or assigned at round-join

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Re: Marines get rank-dependant HUD icons above their sprites

Post by laserdogbad » 08 Jan 2017, 23:40

add this please i can never tell who is a specalist enginner or squad leader +1

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Re: Marines get rank-dependant HUD icons above their sprites

Post by Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws » 08 Jan 2017, 23:41

laserdogbad wrote:add this please i can never tell who is a specalist enginner or squad leader +1

I totally forgot about SLs, it's a bitch to tell who's who; I have to hover over every single marine to find them. I know back in box-station they were the only ones with helmet-lights and thus it was easy, but now it's a pain.

EDIT: They also used to get their own backpacks; Engies got industrial, medics got the white+green cross bag, etc.

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Re: Marines get rank-dependant HUD icons above their sprites

Post by RadiantFlash » 10 Jan 2017, 11:43

Something similar already got accepted: viewtopic.php?f=130&t=3261

Would This satisfy what you meant?

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Re: Marines get rank-dependant HUD icons above their sprites

Post by Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws » 13 Jan 2017, 13:29

RadiantFlash wrote:Something similar already got accepted: viewtopic.php?f=130&t=3261

Would This satisfy what you meant?


Yeah something just like that, right on

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Re: Marines get rank-dependant HUD icons above their sprites

Post by Snypehunter007 » 19 Apr 2017, 18:18

Accepted Duplicate: viewtopic.php?f=130&t=3261

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